Figures and facts

The territory equals some 15,300.000 square kilometers (about 6 mln square km in the Southwestern Asia, about 9 mln 300 thousand square km in Southern Africa). The highest mountains are the peak Tirgaran in the Hindu Kush mountain ridge in the East of Afghanistan, 6,729 meters high, and the extinct volcanic peak Demavend in the Elburz mountains in the North of Iran - 5,604 meters high. The lowest trench is the Dead Sea (or more precisely -lake), situated 392 meters lower than the sea level. The Caspian Sea - the vast inner basin in the world with an area equaling some 370,000 square km. The longest river of the world - the Nile - the length of which exceeds 6,400 km - flows though the territory of Egypt and discharges itself into the Mediterranean Sea. The other two greatest rivers of the region - Euphrates (the length from the headwater of the Murat river amounts to 3,065 km) and Tigris (some 1,900 km long) merge into one riverbed Shatt-Al-Arab, emptying into the Persian Gulf. It is here, that the largest part of the greatest tropical desert of the globe - Sahara (which approximately occupies a quarter of the whole African territory, that is, more than 7 million square km) and the hottest Arabian sand desert Rub-Al-Khali (some 650,000 square km).

The camels are capable of living in the zones of deserts   and dry steppes, in the mountains and areas with   humid climate they do not survive.   Egypt.Y.K.Chistov. 2006.